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Strange Quark Mass Dependence of the Tau Hadronic Width

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The perturbative quark mass corrections to the tau hadronic width are studied to O(alpha_s^3 m_q^2). Including up to dimension four corrections, we get m_s(4 GeV^2)=(143 \pm 42) MeV [m_s(1 GeV^2)=(193 \pm 59) MeV ]. Possible improvements to reduce the theoretical uncertainty are pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811263,
  title  = {Strange Quark Mass Dependence of the Tau Hadronic Width},
  author = {Joaquim Prades and Antonio Pich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811263},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Invited talk at High Energy Conference on Quantum Chromodynamics QCD'98, 2-8 July 1998, Montpellier (France). LaTeX, 8 pages with 3 ps figures